Fayetteville, Beach, Water Park, and Fishin

Justin finished his first year of PA school! So now he gets to relax for about 3 weeks before the next semester starts. We went down and stayed with his brother's family in Fayetteville. We loved seeing everyone. We watched the Olympics, and hung out with family and then on Wednesday we went to Carolina Beach and Jungle Rapids in Wilmington. 

This one is at home, but I still love that cheesy grin. He loves his couch and his phone!

Jaxon & Kaden getting ready for a bike ride!

Happy Grandma!

We had lots of fun at the beach. Kaden had an interesting time trying to figure out all the sounds and textures at the beach. He cried for a little while because he didn't like the rushing waves and the cold water and the wet sand, but once we sat him on the chair, he was happy again! Wednesday night we stayed at a hotel and got up in the morning to go to Jungle Rapids. We had a great time playing at the park. (Sorry you couldn't come with us Sharon! We missed you!) I didn't get pictures because I was so scared my camera was going to get wet lol Kaden didn't get a nap either day, so he had kind of a rough time for a little while. :) But despite all that, we loved the water slides and the sun. Thanks again to Jason and Lena for taking us with them!

I love his crazy hair!

Walking to the beach from the hotel!

Kaden had to pick up every sea shell he saw and hold onto it the whole time! At one point I think he had like 20 of them.

Trying to get away from the water.

Mommy & Kaden feet!

"Whoa! Its gonna get me!"

He was much happier once we put him in the chair. Off the sand, out of the water, and all clean!

As I was standing in front of the chair making sure he didn't fall, Kaden started playing peekaboo! It was hilarious!

Kaden is not so much a fan of sand on his hands so every time he got sand on him, he would whine till I got it off- which was pretty much every other time he sat down.

This was the amazing view from our hotel room balcony. The picture doesn't begin to do it justice! At one point we couldn't tell where the horizon was, the ocean blended into the sky. We just wanted to sit out there all night. And because we were up on the 11th floor, the birds were flying so close we could have touched them- so cool!

Jason rented a paddleboard and he and Justin went out past the surf and paddled up and down the beach.

On Friday we went to David & Tresea's and stayed the night. After Kaden went to bed, we went fishing off the dock on the lake and I caught my first catfish!